What are the photography skills for taking travel photos when there are crowds of people?

Next, we will enter the world of "everyone, everyone, everyone":

The Forbidden City in Beijing, Shinjuku in Tokyo, Akihabara, Hagia Sophia Church in Harbin, the Grand Palace in Macau, and the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong all sound like everyone ~ ~

Shooting can be roughly divided into two categories: shooting people and shooting scenes.

Look for different angles first

This is actually the most critical point for photographers, including two concepts: scene selection and composition. When there are too many people to affect the shooting, the first thing to think about is how to take a unique photo from different angles.

The first thing to move out is the photo of the Grand Forbidden City, because as we all know, the Forbidden City is crowded every day during the 3-day open day in a year, which generally looks like this:

But what I took was like this:

Many people have questioned how I could take such an empty photo of the Forbidden City. Did I go there when it was closed? Heaven and earth, like everyone else, I went on a weekend afternoon, and there were many people.

The first photo is here, staggering the crowds, and taking a picture of the imperial palace in the back can still show the atmosphere of the Forbidden City, but no one is there!

As long as you stagger the central axis and shoot to both sides, you can shoot like this:

This angle is even more important when shooting scenery. Generally, people take a picture of the Macau Grand Bus like this:

In fact, if you change the angle, you can take it like this:

Look for some secluded places around the scenic spots and find good prospects, which will make your photos stand out from the crowd.

Try to minimize the influence of people

When people will inevitably appear in your photos, try to minimize the influence of tourists on the picture, or treat them as a very small element. Do everything you can to stand out.

it's the grand palace museum again. I shot this for my male girlfriend. It can be seen that there are still many people behind me, but those "ants" don't affect my girlfriend's handsomeness at all!

a word: wait

I know that there are children's shoes to lift the table and say, "Isn't this nonsense?" Wait, wait, it's also skillful.

Waiting for a time when there are few people

Everyone knows that there are fewer people in the morning and evening than in the daytime and fewer working days than in the weekend, so it is still meaningful to try to shoot with fewer people.

Hagia Sophia Church in Harbin, everyone knows that this place is equivalent to Tiananmen Square in Harbin, and the crowd is like this:

I waited until 9 pm to take a picture, and that's it: the chair on the right in the above picture is the chair I took a picture of ~

Later, I took a picture like this:

In addition, I used different angles to take a picture when it was crowded during the day: <

Waiting for the gap between people to take pictures

In different places, the rhythm of people flow is different. In some large-scale scenic spots, people flow in waves. You can wait until the gap between the two groups of people to take pictures, so you can take pictures of fewer people than ordinary people!

shinjuku, Tokyo is the most densely populated place in Tokyo, and the crowds of commuters are like chariots, which is like this: (I also took this photo ~)

But in fact, these crowds are regular, with a tram trip and a traffic light trip. For example, the tram station in Japan will be quiet after a wave of people get off, so this time is suitable for taking photos.

shooting with a large aperture

a large aperture or telephoto lens can blur the background and reduce the damage to the picture by tourists in the background.

Using a large aperture can blur the people behind me. This photo uses the aperture of F1.8, and the girl behind me is ruthlessly integrated with the light box by the lens. However, there is a skill here, that is, try to keep yourself at a distance from the people behind you, so as to ensure that the people behind you can be blurred.

slow door shooting

the slow door is a technique often used in landscape photography, but I found that the slow door I photographed was all traffic, so I won't take it out here for the time being.

It's not flattering to shoot people's slow doors in a crowd. First, it's not easy to stay still. Second, it's too strange to stay still in a crowd. So I searched and found only the photos taken many years ago (really many years ago) on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong, which was so fat at that time! Even shorter.

In the later stage of use

We have always stressed that we should try our best to minimize the influence of others on the picture, but sometimes, we can get it if we shoot it, but it can still help us in the later stage. For example, you can use the stamp imitation tool in Photoshop to post-process the photos, or you can be beautiful ~ If you use the stamp imitation tool, the method is: after clicking the stamp tool, hold down the alt key, move to the place above the layer you want to imitate (such as the sea in the picture), release the alt button, and then click the picture you want to cover (such as the person in the picture), and the person will be replaced by the sea.